A bus bay must be a bay outside the main carriageway (not included in lane count) and not physically separated. It does not matter whether a bus stop is placed at the bus bay or not. The only criteria a bay along a side of the road being considered a bus bay is that the purpose is to pick up and/or drop off passengers.

If the boarding place is physically separated (splits off) from the main carriageway, make a highway=service for it and do not use this tag unless there is really a bay along the carriageway of highway=service.

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Usage

To provide information about bus bays, add the bus_bay=* tag to the highway=* way representing the street.

The values left and right depend on the direction in which the way is drawn in OpenStreetMap. A value of left means the left-hand side of the road when looking in forward direction, while right means the right-hand side. See Forward & backward, left & right for further explanation about directions and sides.

If the boarding place is physically separated from the street please use a separate way (e.g. highway=service).

Additional tags

Additional tags can be added by using the bus_bay:prefix, in combination with the :left/right/bothsuffix (becoming an infix here). For example: